Defining Success

What does success mean to you? What would you have to be doing to feel that you are a sucessful person? Everybody has their own opinons, here are some listed below. Indicate whether you strongly agree, agree, are not sure, disagree, or strongly disagree with each of the following opinions.

Money, achievement, fame and success are important, but they are bought too dearly when aquired at the cost of health
-Anonymous

It's great to be great, but it's better to be human.
-Will Rogers

Nothing succeeds like excess.
-Oscar Wilde

Success is a journey, not a destination.
-Ben Sweetland

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if your playing by other people's rules, while quietly playing by your own.
-Michael Korda

She could not separate success from peace of mind--the two must go together...
-Daphne Du Maurier, Mary Anne

All of us are born with a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
-Danny Thomas

I've never sought success in order to get fame and money: it's the talent and the passion that count in success.
-Ingrid Bergman

The two leading formulas for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.
-Edgar A. Shoaff

Success is something to enjoy to flaunt! Otherwise why work so hard to get it?
-Isobel Lennart, Funny Girl

Success is knowing what your values are and living in a way that is consistant with your values.
-Danny Cox

Success can only be measured in the terms of distance traveled...
-Mavis Gallant

If at first you don't succeed, you are running about average.
-Jean Kerr

Success can make you one of two ways. it can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth out the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.
-Barbara Walters

Six essential qualities that are key to success: sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.
-Dr. William Menninger

The people who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.
-Lloyd Jones

The wealthy man is the man who is much, not the one who has much.
-Karl Marx

Winning isn't everything--it's the only thing.
-Vince Lombardi

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
-Robert F. Kennedy

If at first you can't succeed try, try again. Then give up--there's no use being a fool about it.
-W.C Fields

I'm opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
-Mark Twain





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